#erica

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. ↗

— Larry Bird

#athletes #greatest #i #mean #world

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. ↗

— Artur Davis

#african-american community #barack #barack obama #black #community

I don't think there is much American music. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#american music #i #much #music #think

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#american #american men #fun #golf #having

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#america #best #country #i #i love

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#been #comedy #down #frightening #happened

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America. ↗

— Karen Black

#america #believe #i #sorry #television

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#closed #company #economic #environmental #last